> I found that 5 minutes after I sent this message... system boots up 2 > processors with the noapic cmdline. > cool... > I have the chip. This is a straight Intel system. And the EISA config > states that it has to be turned on for SMP operation. Booting with the APIC > turned off in the BIOS/EISA boots the kernel with only one processor. Also > the APIC is detected by the kernel. Which brings me to another conclusion. > > How do I find Brian Perkins... He is the one that wrote the code that my > kernel is panicing at. I am blowing right past all of his failsafes. > hmm bug? > > >--- Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I am having some trouble getting any smp kernel to run on my > >> ancient Pentium system. The problem I am having is that ( > >> from what I have read in various linux smp documents) the my > >> old Intel motherboard mp table is lying about the IRQ for the > >> Real Time Clock. Thus preventing me from booting. The system > >> boots up and detects both processors and then right after the > >> IO-APIC starts I get this: > >> > >> IO APIC pin 2, 13 not connected. > >> .. MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC > >> ...trying to set up timer as ExtINT... failed > >> ...tryng to set up timer as BP IRQ... failed > >> Kernel panic: IO APIC + timer doesn't work! > >> In swapper task - not syncing > >> > >> I have read through the code and see that the error is coming > >> directly from the IO-APIC code. I am assuming that you need > >> the IO-APIC for SMP to work. Am I wrong? the todo list for > >> the smp.c file states one of the todos is to separate IO-APIC > >> from SMP. If I am wrong is it possible to prevent me from > >> using IO-APIC. I am not to keen on SMP systems. This is my > >> first attempt at it. > \ > >> Intel Xpress Server 1.00.19.AM0 Bios > >> dual Pentium 66 stepping 5 ( yes I know stepping 5 cpus have > >> lockup problems but his isn't really a lockup... I can't even > >> bootup far enough to see the cpus lockup) > > - > Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/mentre/smp-faq/ > To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Joseph Acosta ........ SMP Linux 2.2.10 / RedHat 6.0 home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mindspring.com/~joeja alias: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/mentre/smp-faq/ To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
